A site for my handmade cards, accompanied by my photos and written meanderings which are occasionally witty, often tongue-in-cheek, and rarely profound. Beginning in June 2013, you'll also see lots of NBUS, which is an acronym I coined for Never-Before-Used-Schtuff. Feel free to join in, use the acronym, and use up your NBUS too! Thanks for coming by! Have a beverage and enjoy!

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January 1, 2014

Twenty Fourteen! CQC #222; NBUS #86; SSWC; WOYWW #239

5, 4, 3, 2, 1 ~ Hap E. Nuyear!!

And Happy What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday (WOYWW)! It's been a really fun year snooping at your desks on Wednesdays thanks to the blog hop posted faithfully by our esteemed leader, Ms. Julia Dunnit. Thank you, Julia! I wish you the bestest year!

Here's my desk where I've just finished a little something suitable for today.

I was planning to use my Washi tapes to make a Christmas tag and I never got around to it, so I made a tag for new year's celebrating instead. I took a piece of scratch paper and folded it in half like we used to do to make snowflakes, remember, and I drew a champagne bottle and cut it out as a template.

It's so much easier to draw half of something. Unless it's a paycheck, then you want to draw all of it.

So I traced my template onto black cardstock and cut it out. Then I took my little champagne bottle tag and bedeckled and bedazzled it with pieces of Washi tape and wire, thus and such:

Then I made a card for my tag. I used some of my gray striped Washi tape, a NBUS vellum sediment, and some gray brads and I created a little pocket for my tag to sit in.

I thought it would be fitting to have flashy exploding sequint stars electrifying the air.

And here is the tag snug in it's pocket, against a black backdrop so you can see it better.

Some of the stars look lovely midnight blue, but IRL they are silver.

I am playing in the current ColourQ Challenge, which is sporting this fabulous photo!

In our New Friends Corner, we are ending the year by welcoming two new friends! Please meet:

Ann Clitts of Just for Fun. Ann has been blogging since 2008, bless her! That's an incredible amount of knowledge, information, and inspiration waiting for you with just the click of the mouse!!

Gemma of Gem's Little Creations. Gemma is also a long-time blogger since 2010, and she also has an endless supply of ideas and inspiration for you!

How lucky are we that we share our talents and ideas and skills with each other and all for free!! Thank you, ladies, and welcome to the Playhouse!!

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Enjoy your day! No, seriously, enjoy. LITS!*

As always, thank you for coming by to visit the Playhouse and special thanks to you if you take the time to leave a comment and/or join as a follower! Please let me know you came by, so I can be sure and return the flavor!

103 comments:

what a great poem...you said it so eloquently! happy New Year to you too my dear blogging friend!! Great card to bring in the New Year! I am sitting in my craft room, perusing the emails, blogs and facebook...hubby is watching Dr. Who!!!

hi darnell and avery hapy new year to you. love teh champagne bottle tag card great use of washi tape and very fitting for the occasion. also fab poem i hope 2014 is a year of happiness good health and opportunities to you and your family. Thank you for being what I consider a friend and your kind comments over the last year it has been very much appreciated and your posts always make me LOL... your positivity and thoughtfulness just shines. crafty hugs Andrea X X #34

Hi Darnell and a Happy New Year. Your posts are always so cheery. Love the card/tag and have saved the idea - hope you don't mind - gave me a idea for DH's card this year - he will be celebrating a 'decade ' birthday!!! Fab poem. Thanks for visiting and leaving me a comment on a recent post- much appreciated. Anne x #36

A lovely to start 2014 with a smile! Lovely cards and all those challenges! And you know, sometimes the "old techniques" seem to become new again and even better. I love the bottle - frankly I love ANYTHING that helps me work thru my scrap LOL! so thanks for the inspiration

Wonderful card...perfect for the New Year...how clever of you to use the tape in that manner....cute poem..always love coming to your blog , you alwaoys start my day with a laugh...yu need to write a book...LOL!!

Happy New Year Dr Arnell !!!! Love your card, so clever and love the poem too. Your desk looks far too tidy though, so glad you can't see mine atm.Thanks for all the inspiration and for all the chuckles you gave me too in 2013. I look forward to visiting you this year too. Big hugs :) Viv xx

Happy New Year Darnell! Let's break open that bubbly and celebrate! Thanks for a year of blogging fun with your puns, creations, wit, humor, and now great poetry too! Your talents are endless!! Happy 2014!

Happy, Happy 2014 Darnell! thanks for your wonderful poetry, a peak at your 'oh so clean' work table!! and your very creative bottle tag! so festive and sparkly - a fabulously inspired creation from the pic!

Wow your card is gorgeous, very creative as well. Wishing you a very Happy, Healthy, and Creative 2014. Thank you for your wonderful blog, I love to visit and read your wonderful stories. And of course see your beautiful designs as well. Thanks for your all your visits and super comments. Hugs, Shirleyx ps.. still think you should write a book:)

What a fun and unique card, Darnell! Love the bottle tag with it's washi tape and cool wire wrapping. So creative! All the best to you and yours in 2014, and I look forward to your blog posts this year! Hugs :) Sandy

Happy New Year, Darnell! Your bottle is fabulous as is your card! You are a gal after my own heart, easier to draw and cut the shape, love to see someone else that does this! Thanks for joining in the fun at the colourQ, hope to see you often!

Whoo hoo! Love the champagne bottle and your idea to draw half of it (but a whole paycheck). I like the use of washi tapes on it. I ran out of Christmas stickers this year so I decorated my envelopes with washi tape, you know just to make sure they stay sealed during their journey. I have oodles of the stuff so I need more ideas to use it. Happy Noo Yeah to you, hon!

Hi Darnell, thank you so much for dropping by my blog stampingrandma.blogspot.uk and for leaving such a lovely comment.

I love your Playhouse ! I wish my craft room was so organised and tidy. That is my main resolution for the new year - clear out my crafting space to allow creativity to flow in ! Happy New Year to you.

Gosh that's a clean desk you've got there, you must have spent all the time between Christmas and New Year having a massive tidy up! Very happy with my Santa gifts this year, as always, Andrew is as interested in the swift as I am and has wound many a hank in the last day or two! If only I could get him as interested in house work, lol!! Hope you had a brilliant New Year and health and good cheer to you and the Mister.

Happy new year Darnell!! I'm wishing you the best!! Your card is magnificent!! You are so clever to be able to cut that bottle out! I love the gold washi tape too! Very festive!! Love your poem too! You're quite the poet!! Thanks so much for the congratulation you left on my blog :) ((hugs))

Oh my if only it were real I'd take a sip with you! Happy New Year Darnell!! Thank you thank you! You're arrived on a day that I really needed some happy mail! Your card and Kay's will be my Friday Smiles post cause they gave me a smile! Thanks for the earlier visit! Happy WOYWW New Year! Nan G #47

Okay, your champagne bottle is the coolest thing ever!!! Love how you imagined it, love how you made it, and love how you included it on your card! HAPPY NEW YEAR to you, Darnell! And here's my poem back to you:You are so cool, so sweet and so fun,Your posts make me smile, I love them a ton!Can't thank you enough for all the inspiration!(...and that's all I got...!!) ha ha!

Your champagne bottle was gorgeous! Great card! I can't believe your desk looked that clean and ou had just finished the project! Mine always looks like a tornado hit it!And your poem! Your talent is astounding! I am sure you will be published soon! And it will be become required reading in the local high schools!

Hi Darnell, fabulous tag card and a brilliant rhyme - your are such a talented lady and you certainly provide me with plenty of inspiration too :) Have a great week and a wonderful 2014. Hugs, Elizabeth x #79

What a fabulous idea Darnell - if I was with you I'd raise a glass to toast your wonderful champagne tag and card. Thank you for being a wonderful blog buddy and May the Creative Muse sit on your shoulder all the new year long!HugsCarol x

When my sister Sue and I went to Florida a few years back, around our sister Lisa's birthday, we came home with a special little present for her... a hooded sweatshirt with a pocket smack dab in the front, that held a beer! This is so much nicer than that. Your champagne bottle is whimsical and sparkly. The pocket is pure genius. Your poetry rocks. And your posts are FUN! xoxo Bev

LOVE, LOVE and LOVE your sparkly champagne bottle with its delightful pocket! And your poetry: fabulous! I'll be sharing it with my dad, for sure!! May the Creative Muses - of card making and blog writing - continue to inspire you, so that we, your super loyal fans who love you immensely, can also continue to be inspired, dazzled and amazing by YOU! Hugs~c

Hello Miss Darnell, your champagne card is BRILLIANT, I looooooove the bedeckled and bedazzled bottle, the pocket is fantastic, BRIILIANT card my dear and you do make my smile big, it's wonderful to be visiting, you make us all feel GOOD :O)I've a lot of visiting to do so I'll be fly off and will visit soon ((( BIG HUGS ))) my dear Friend.. 97 comments , how well loved you are, always brightening our day...

great post and poem! I love the sparkling sparkly bottle pocket card! Didn't get a chance to do a WOYWW post...may get to it tomorrow...this week but just wanted to drop by and say hello! Vickie aka Okienurse

I just love to read your blog! That 2014 poem is great! Thank you for putting another smile on my face. Your card looks wonderful. Love the bottle! Think I'll look into the What's On Your Desk challenge. I always enjoy looking at yours to see what you've been up to. Your craft space is inspiring. I just love it, and I am sure you do, too!

Wow! Great use of your glitzy washi. This was such a clever card, and the best use I've seen to date of the washi. Loved the poem too...I think you are a closet writer, my girl!!! I'll check out your new followers. I always get some good places to visit when they come to the Playhouse first!!! Hugs & TFS

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I have been stamping and making cards since 2002. I've been married 47 years to Kevin, known herein as "Mister." Our son Daniel and his wife Rachel have twin sons Henry and Adam. Card-making and blogging are wonderful hobbies which have brought me noodles of friends! Oh, and I have an imaginary hamster named Hammy who keeps me in line. Thank you for visiting, joining, and commenting! It will be my pleasure to return the flavor!!